Luke 4: 1-13 Do you remember the show, The Music Man? It’s about this man, Harold Hill, who travels from town to town in the early 1900’s convincing the townspeople that they need a local band. So he sells them musical instruments and uniforms. And he teaches them what he calls the “Think System.” You don’t need to bother with learning to read music, he tells them. You just think. Think! He has the people convinced that if they think it hard enough they will somehow acquire the skills of playing music. It didn’t work very well, though. Only their mothers and fathers could love hearing them play. And maybe that was enough. This show was written during the 1950’s, but it harkens back to a time in America when things like the think system were hugely popular. It went by a variety of names – mind-cure, positive thinking, self-help, […]
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